Chap. 227.——-An ACT requiring notice to be given to cities and towns as to
claims for damages for negligence. [S B 92]

Approved March 26, 1938

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That no
action shall be maintained against any city or town for injury to
any person or property or for wrongful death alleged to have been
sustained by reason of the negligence of the city or town, or of any
officer, agent or employee thereof, unless a written statement by the
claimant, his agent, attorney or representative, of the nature of the
claim and of the time and place at which the injury is alleged to have
occurred or been received, shall have been filed with the city at-
torney or town attorney, or with the mayor, or chief executive,
within sixty days after such cause of action shall have accrued, except
where the claimant is an infant or non compos mentis, or the injured
party dies within such sixty days, such statement may be filed within
one hundred and twenty days; and statements pursuant to this act
shall be valid, notwithstanding any charter provision of any city or
town.